[burmanet2-l] AP-Rebel Who Took Ove

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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] AP-Rebel Who Took Over Myanmar Embassy Vows To Fight On

AP Myanmar, sounds like Spdc propaganda disinformation, dont believe it
doesnt make any sense and is all full of contradictions, skipit,
wait until you get credible byline story, this looks like slorc
material,  ds

TIN KYI wrote:
> 
> Thursday, December 9 1:46 PM SGT
> 
> Rebel Who Took Over Myanmar Embassy Vows To Fight On
> 
> KA MAR PA LAW, Myanmar (AP)--Hiding at a jungle base with authorities
> from two countries hunting him, the leader of a small band of student
> rebels who seized Myanmar's embassy in Thailand two months ago said
> the ambassador was lucky to still be alive.
> 
> The man known as Johnny, whose capture of the embassy was the boldest
> move in years by Myanmar's outmaneuvered pro-democracy movement, told
> The Associated Press this week at a remote hideout in Myanmar, also
> known as Burma, that he will keep fighting as long as he lives.
> 
> Johnny, about 30 years old, said his group, who call themselves the
> Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors and are called terrorists by
> Myanmar's military regime, had been prepared to kill Ambassador Hla
> Maung - who by luck of timing had left the embassy just before the
> seizure.
> 
> The group was also prepared to kill four other Myanmar citizens if it
> had to, Johnny said.
> 
> "I have to say the ambassador is very lucky," said Johnny, handing out
> one of Hla Maung's stolen business cards. "I saw his car leave the
> embassy about five minutes before we entered, but it was too late to
> call off the operation."
> 
> In a sign of frustration dogging Myanmar's opposition after decades of
> harsh military rule, Johnny denounced Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the
> harassed legal opposition and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for
> her nonviolent promotion of democracy.
> 
> "I don't like Suu Kyi because I don't think she really loves the
> country," Johnny remarked. "She doesn't have the courage to run the
> country."
> 
> He said that Suu Kyi's marriage to a British academic, the late
> Michael Aris, proved that she preferred foreigners to her own people -
> a line of reasoning pushed by the military government in its branding
> of Suu Kyi as a traitor.
> 
> "I'll be against her if she's in the government," Johnny said.
> 
> Suu Kyi and her party criticized the embassy takeover a few days after
> it happened, expressing sympathy for the aims but declaring that her
> movement wanted to "show that the human spirit can prevail over the
> might of arms and bring about the change that we want."
> 
> Apologizes To Thailand
> 
> Johnny and four other exiled students stormed the embassy Oct. 1,
> demanding a restoration of democracy in Myanmar and holding dozens of
> diplomats and foreigners hostage at gunpoint for 26 hours until the
> captors were given safe passage to the border.
> 
> The incident rocked Thailand's relations with Myanmar, particularly
> because Thai officials who negotiated the bloodless end to the siege
> called the hostage-takers freedom-fighters.
> 
> Myanmar retaliated by closing the border. Thailand then expelled about
> 10,000 illegal Myanmarese workers and has moved to send exiled student
> dissidents who have been based in Thailand for more than a decade to
> third countries.
> 
> Johnny and his comrades are on the run from Thai police, who have
> issued warrants for their arrest. The Myanmar army, whose control over
> the rebel-ridden border area is uneven, dearly wants to capture them.
> 
> They have surfaced at the border base of a small, mystical ethnic
> Karen guerrilla band known as God's Army, led by twin 12-year-old
> boys.
> 
> Johnny's one regret was that Thailand toughened conditions for Myanmar
> refugees after the takeover. He apologized to Thailand for having to
> carry out the action on its soil.
> 
> Johnny expressed enthusiasm for God's Army, which gave them shelter
> when more established rebel groups were apparently unwilling. Still,
> he promised that the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors would not fade
> away.
> 
> "We won't be here too long," he said. "There's still many more things
> to do. But can't say what they will be. It will be a fight to get rid
> of the Burmese government."